IBM ILOG CPLEX

High-performance mathematical programming engine

Optimization transforms business issues into mathematical models which, solved with IBM ILOG CPLEX's sophisticated algorithms, produce precise and logical decisions.

Improve efficiency, quickly implement strategies, and increase profitability. IBM ILOG CPLEX's mathematical optimization technology enables smarter decision-making for efficient resource utilization.

• Robust algorithms for demanding problems: IBM ILOG CPLEX has solved problems with millions of constraints and variables.
• Industry-leading support: IBM has and impressive rate of product improvement and ample support resources to serve you.
• High performance: IBM ILOG CPLEX delivers the power needed to solve very large, real-world optimization problems, as well as the speed required for today's interactive applications.
• Fundamental algorithms: IBM ILOG CPLEX provides flexible, high-performance optimizers for solving linear programming, quadratic programming, quadratically constrained programming and mixed integer programming problems.
• Robust and reliable: A large installed base helps us make IBM ILOG CPLEX better with each release. Every new feature is tested on the biggest, most diverse model library in the world.
• Flexible interfaces: IBM ILOG CPLEX gives developers a variety of ways to interact with it during the development and deployment of their applications.
• What’s new: IBM ILOG CPLEX 12.0 incorporates the latest enhancements in both solution speed and flexibility - faster mixed integer programming, parallel performance enabled by default, and new connectors for popular software.
• Operating systems supported: AIX, HP Unix, Linux, Macintosh, Sun Solaris, Windows

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• Manufacturing
• Transportation
• Health care
• Advertising
• Telecommunications
• Financial services
• Energy and utilities
• Marketing and sales
• Cross-industry applications

• Production planning and sourcing

• Order fulfillment and promising

• Supply chain management

• Detailed production scheduling (discrete, process, semiconductor)

• Inventory and warehouse network design

• Capacity planning

• Procurement management

• Network design

• Transportation mode and container size selection

• Crew and driver scheduling

• Container and truck loading

• Transportation procurement

• Vehicle routing and scheduling

• Yield and revenue management

• Gate/dock assignment

• Traffic planning and rescheduling

• Harbor and port management

• Hospital staff scheduling

• Patient procedure scheduling

• Radiation exposure calculations

• Advertising scheduling

• Ad revenue maximization

• Network design

• Network management

• Satellite operations

• Portfolio optimization

• Fund rebalancing

• In-kinding

• Loan configuration/online lending

• Block trading

• Trade crossing

• Loan pooling

• Collection recovery

• Electric power generation/unit commitment

• Power, natural gas and water distribution

• Oil and gas production

• Water resource management

• Hydroelectric power valuation

• Package bidding auctions

• Campaign optimization

• Price optimization

• Product configuration/recommendation

• Retail display

• Collections and recovery

• Marketing Campaign optimization

• Price optimization and yield management

• Product configuration/recommendation

• Retail display

• Collections and recovery

• Workforce planning and scheduling

• Maintenance planning and scheduling

• Inventory planning and scheduling

• Route planning and scheduling

• Event/class scheduling

• Portfolio management

• Capital budgeting and rationing

• Cash management

• Package bidding auctions

Operating System	Software	Hardware
HP-UX 11.x	C++ compiler: HP aC++ A.03.73 Java: JDK 5.0, 6.0	HP PA-RISC
HP-UX 11.x	C++ compiler: HP aC++ A.03.73 (64-bit) Java: JDK 5.0, 6.0	HP PA-RISC
HP-UX 11i (v2 and v3)	C++ compiler: HP aC++ A.06.17 (64-bit) Java: JDK 5.0, 6.0	HP Integrity (aka Intel Itanium IA-64 processor family)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10	C++ compiler: g++ 4.1 (64-bit) Java: JDK 5.0	Intel IA-64 processor family (Itanium)
AIX 5.2, 5.3, 6.1	C++ compiler: IBM XL C/C++ 7.0, 8.0 Java: JDK 5.0, 6.0, static_stl only	IBM Power architecture
AIX 5.2, 5.3, 6.1	C++ compiler: IBM XL C/C++ 7.0, 8.0 (64-bit) Java: JDK 5.0, 6.0, static_stl only	IBM Power architecture
Solaris 9, 10	C++ compiler: Sun Studio 9 and higher Java: JDK 5.0, 6.0	SUN UltraSPARC
Solaris 9, 10	C++ compiler: Sun Studio 9 and higher (64-bit) Java: JDK 5.0, 6.0	SUN UltraSPARC
Solaris 10	C++ compiler: SUN Studio 11 (64-bit) Java: JDK 5.0, 6.0	x64 (aka AMD64, Opteron, EM64T, ia32e)
Debian 4.0 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 C++ compiler: g++ 4.1 Java: JDK 5.0, 6.0	x86
Debian 4.0 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 C++ compiler: g++ 4.1 (64-bit) Java: JDK 5.0, 6.0	x86-64 (AKA AMD64, Opteron, EM64T, ia32e)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9	C++ compiler: g++ 3.3 (64-bit) Java: JDK 5.0, 6.0	x86-64 (AKA AMD64, Opteron, EM64T, ia32e)
Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5 (Darwin)	C++ compiler: g++ 4.0 (32-bit) Java: JDK 5.0	x86
Windows XP, Server 2003, Vista, Server 2008	C++ compiler: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 .NET: Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 Java: JDK 5.0, 6.0	x86
Windows XP, Server 2003, Vista, Server 2008	C++ compiler: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 .NET: Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 Java: JDK 5.0, 6.0	x86
Windows XP x64, Server 2003 (64-bit), Vista (64-bit), Server 2008 (64-bit)	C++ compiler: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 (64-bit) .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 Java: JDK 5.0, 6.0	x64 (aka AMD64, Opteron, EM64T, ia32e)
Windows XP x64, Server 2003 (64-bit), Vista (64-bit), Server 2008 (64-bit)	C++ compiler: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (64-bit) .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 Java: JDK 5.0, 6.0	x64 (aka AMD64, Opteron, EM64T, ia32e)